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Bought this for a T520 Lenovo laptop & I would say it works equally as well as a built in dual antenna Broadcom AC adapter in my home. Its Broadcom based netgear usb adapter. The placement might be weird on some laptops as it definitely would take getting used to it sticking up on the side of the keyboard - luckily my laptop has a usb slot behind the screen where its totally out of the way. The antenna folds out so it looks kind of like a big T, for best signal strength. Everytime I look, it says I have a 866.5 mbps connection to my asus Broadcom based ac wifi access point. Normally I only use the AC band but it seems to work fine on typical wifi N too. My old laptop on Broadcom N built in wifi would see a max of 8 access points.. this netgear sees 12 so it 'sees better. The only negatives I see is it doesn't have built in blue tooth & even though the link speed is 866.5 its only usb2 which limits the lan speed to around 25MB/s or 200mbps. It has only loss connection once in the couple weeks I've been using it and that was while playing around with a cell phone program, sort of a weird root program on a usb tethered phone - This adapter is in use almost constantly here, connected 24/7 except when the laptop finds time to sleeps or hibernates... it instantly connects when waking from sleep or hibernate, or with restarts. I would say its a heck of a deal at the 10 dollar price range. Wish it was usb3 for network attached hard drive to be faster.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
Strong signal and great connection rate but slow throughput, My laptop has USB 3.0 but it seem the adaptor is only 2.0 and seems to be the bottle neck. When I disable the Wi-Fi adapter and enable the internal Intel one with a weaker signal I get better speed test’s with the old one by 60 mbps. So for me it was just a waste of time and money but lucky not a lot.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Works correctly in Windows, sadly it didn't work on Linux, I'm still trying to make it work with some drivers found on Github, but no avail so far, my mistake for getting an item without proper previous investigation, but I give it 4 star as I can't recommend a global company as Netgear that doesn't give the proper support for their items.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
I was hoping that this new WiFi technology (tunneling) would give me better signal strength than the older technology or maybe close to what I have with 2.4ghz but not the case. One of my PC's is about 40' away and get only 1 bar on the signal strength icon. It works but just barely and my tablets which are 30' away get two bars. I haven't tried other 5ghz adapter but my old 2.4ghz gave me 5 bars in my whole house.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
I have read of many people connection problems and they blame the adapter. I would check advanced setting to make sure any power save settings are off. These notoriously cause disconnect issue even with other adapters. speed is above average and range is good. Much better than my AC600 TP-Link adapter that goes to my wi fi connected computer for an alternative to her 10/100 Ethernet connection. Even with USB 2.0 ports I can consistently get 125 Mbps or better. Not bad for slow USB and a 25% improvement over the built in 10/100. All in all a fair value.
Verified purchase: No
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